Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1947 — Page 20

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J OUR VOICES ON THE AIR WE DO NOT believe a democratic nation such as ours oh can trade propaganda punches with a dictatorship such as the Soviet Union without sinking to the other felJow’s level of morality and sportsmanship. We cannot compete in that field with an adversary “who has the choice of weapons. and writes his rules as he goes along. Truth can’t cover the same ground as the repetitious lie and the poisoned innuendo. Proponents of the state department's “infarmationcultural” program have given us more ballyhoo than documentation in their sales talks for this “new arm of diplomacy. ” Reporters have been told at the department that the mis-named “Voice of America” is beamed to areas having 20 million short-wave receiving sets, of which an estimated 900,000 are in the Soviet Union. Yet Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, a recent ambassador to Russia who ought to know, testified he had no official information on the number of receiving sets in Russia, although he had heard one report there were 50,000. There's a lot of difference between 50,000 and 900,000, and what was the basis for the 900,000 if it was not “official ?” .

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BUT TF there are as many as 50,000 receiving sets in the Soviet Union, how many of them are tuned in to hear our lessons in American civics and “Turkey in the Straw?” How many Americans listen in on the Soviet propaganda broadcasts from Moscow? Much stress is placed on the value of the programs beamed to occupied Germany. In view of the food riots, a better ration wauld do a more effective selling job for us there than radio music and book reviews of “The Wallaces of Iowa.” . Some of the new cultural activities have merit. The

American books and periodicals, for those who want facts about America. It seems agreed, too, that the picturemagazine, “Amerika,” distributed in Russia, is worthwhile. But boondoggling, no. All the world respects dignity and strength. Our reputation for these qualities will be impaired by joining the babel on the air waves with inferior programs.

PROSPECT NOT SO GLOOMY WE HAVE just come across a letter written by a successful American who has spent a lifetime knocking around the world and’ who has’ lived through too many —erises to be appalled by the present one. °° In such times, when gloom is the dominant note in the pontifications of most of our heavy thinkers, we find it stimulating to read the views of this informed optimist. Looking first toward the efforts of Gen. MacArthur to ~democratize Japan, then to the prospective application of the Truman doctrine in Greece and the Balkans, he writes: “A genuinely widely prosperous Japan, thoroughly ‘sold on democratic-capitalism in consequence, will be the greatest asset for peace we can hope to gain out of this immediate post-war situation. No soundly functioning democratic-capitalistic country will fall for communism . . . none ever has. Russia certainly never at any time had real capitalism and 80 per cent of its population at no time ever had any contact with anything that remotely resembled progressive capitalism as we understand the term in the United States. If Japan could be really established on that basis it could easily be the vital element for peace: in the world to come.

“THE SAME thing holds true for Greece and the Balkans. Capitalism . . and, of course, they have no real concept of democracy at all . . . has never progressed further than late medievalism in the whole area south of Hungary. If we went into Greece with the dominant aim of creating a democracy and soundly reviving or better establishing real capitalism based entirely on the theory of helping the Greeks and not on any idea of preserving what remnants of economic colonialism that still exist there . and if we could succeed in doing it". . . we'd stop communism throughout the Balkans in its tracks.

“The people are Communists or go Communist because they want things . . . seeds . . . bridges . . . roads . . sewers . . . and goods in the little crossroads stores. Fo over ten years they have had practically nothing. Get! that going and the boys in the hills will race back to get | in line and start farming again or tending their goats.

“We've got a chance in Greece, too, because of the wide percentage of Americanized Greeks who can act as buffers ‘and interpreters of Americanism .to their fellow Greeks. “But the thing has got to be done on the widest possible basis with the little people getting the big end of it because they are the ones that are suffering the most and upon whom the urge to try communism as a relief from a busted and discredited and to them non-functioning ‘capitalist c’ regime rests the sharpest. Greece, like Russia, never really ever,met up with capitalism of the sort” that we are developing here.”

THANKS, DOCTOR HIS world is full of problems that baffle us, but at least we now know exactly what"to do if ever we happen to i “own a roller-skating rink and it gets infested by bats. ‘Dr. C. H. Curran of the American Museum of Natural has been called in, to. deal with-a ‘situation of that Lake Kanawaukee, N. Y. Several hundred bats o the rink at this resort, and whether flying n the rafters were unwelcome 'to the skatremedy: “Spray the place with powwill make the bats thirsty, They will

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the car. Why was this car owner given the right to park there when I wasn't allowed to? Continuing, I drove south to Washington st, turned west from Delaware st. to Senate ave. I counted five cars double parked with no one in the cars at all, and in some places there was two and three at a time with someone waiting in.each carn .. Now if we are going to have parking laws, let us abide by them and not let anyone break them by our officers giving them the breaks. I am in favor of our laws and what they stand for. I'm a citizen of Indianapolis, a taxpayer and property owner, but the hell with this way of being pushed around by these officers. I am tired of it and lois of others feel like I do. I am still mad over the way I was treated. = = Ld “PRECINCT WORKERS HOLD THE KEY TO POLITICS” By Charles L. Blume, 2448 Coyner ave. Sometimes a lack of understanding on the part of newspaper editors goes beyond the point of being amazing. It is disgusting. Certainly we have machine politics. This whole government is based .on machine politics of one sort or another. Certainly there is antimachine politics, which in itself is just. another machine.

When you get down to fundamental facts, you find that this whole structure of government fis based -upon one inconspicuous official, who draws no salary, receives no compensation other than perhaps the good will of his neighbors, and that official is called “precinct committeeman” or “precinct captain.” Now on this precinct official rest many duties that are expected of him in an official capacity and many from the unofficial expectations of his constituents in the precinct. He is elected by the con-

"Why Do Police Permit Double Parking by Some, Rebuke Others?!’

By Mrs. E. M. M., Indianapolis T-have beens reader of your paper for years; to be exact, 38 years, and this is my first time to gripe about os polite or our laws. I have seen so much dirty work I can’t keep still any longer. Friday afternoon at 3:40 p. m., I stopped my car in front of 134 N. Delaware st. just to pick my husband up, and was told by a police officer to*'move on, that this is a no-parking zone. Well I'had a few blocks to drive before I could make a turn and come back to pick up my husband. The same officer passed up a car that was parked with no one in

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everybody is qualified to vote that are not he notifies and tries to.get registered, and it is surprising how many people have to be coaxed to do their duty as citizens. Suppose all commYtteemen would suddenly fefuse to function and nobody would take their “places. Who is going to get the board together to see that the election comes off? Who is going to see that that board is fed? Who would

room, garage or shop for the magnificent sum of $15 to be used as a voting place? Who is going to see that the people are properly registered? Who is going to stand guard to prevent fradulent voting? Who is going to get out the vote? It has always been my attitude that if people do not like the type of committeeman they have, they should run themselves and see if the. e will elect. them.

When “y talk “aboyt @ politics, you t leaders of being wrong. Weil, majority

of ‘the committeemen elect those leaders — leaders against whom vague charges of collusion and crookedness have been launched but nothing ever actually proven— and we go along with those leaders because we have elected them.

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“WHY IS THERE DELAY IN STATE PAY TO UNEMPLOYED?” By W:Debine, Indianapolis Every shade of opinion under the skies has its say in the peoples columns of your paper. The public is aware of the fact that you can't agree with half the things the people have to complain about or preach about. You expose bingo and all other forms: of gambling, graft and corruption, witchery and a variety of quacks; so can you tell the hundreds of persons who have paid state unemployment insurance and have been unemployed from four to 15 weeks and have applied at the state office for aid,

tion? EDITOR'S NOTE: Fred Denner, of

division, state employment security division, says that te his knowledge there are no persons whe have been refused consideration of claims for t compensation. Any person denied benefits receive written notice of reason, he said. Some cases, where a labor dispute decision is pending, are delayed.

t 4 » » “PAPERS ARE FULL OF MILITARY PROPAGANDA” By James J. Cullings, 107 S$. Capitel ave. Many people have read in the daily papers and have seen and read military propaganda displayed in the various theaters. The persons and organizations sponsoring this universal military training are the same persons and organizations who have continually tried to force a military dictatorship on the citizens of this country. The mijlitarists, both amateur and professional, have stooped to the very lowest possible depth with the

and untruthful propaganda to deceive the people. No person can go to a show without having to listen to unreasonable, disgusting military rot, No person can pick up a paper to read, especially a ScrippsHoward paper, that is not full of military propaganda of the cheapest sort. These militarists are not fooling the intelligent people of our country. I want to let you realize there are many like me who value their freedom and want these kids to also have their freedom and not to be regimented into the army military machine.

“AS A NEWSBOY, 1 LIKE. . DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME” By Edward Landreth, 4831 Wentworth bivd. I am a newspaper carrier and glad that we have daylight savings time. After passing papers I used to have

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the lawn, etc. I think that there must be many people who appreciate daylight savings time, but haven't bothered to write in about it.

“WE DON'T NEED MORE MEMORIALS” By D. B., Indianapolis. Who's going to pay for the $4 million dollar buildings they now plan to put on the American Legion plaza? If there’s one thing Indianapolis doesn’t need, it's more memorials.

$2 million worth of material of the housing field. I've been out of the army 18 months and I'm still looking for a house. Why should I pay xes for such monstrosities as meal buildings when I can’t Spend

DAILY THOUGHT Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it—Ecclesiastes 12:7.

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Money . Indiana without edu~ scarcely. be a state in modern America. boils down to money-none, Indiana face to face with “ofa state school fund, Above all else, this is no hem-and-haw matter. It touches directly or indirectly every father and mother; every child, young or ‘old; every citizen of the state of every age, station or standing. Thus the state school fund of Indiana inexorably becomes every Hoosler's oyster. The first move to establish this fund was made in article IX of the first state constitution of 1816. The 43 men who sat in this convention provided for a permanent fund to support a public school system, They further provided that the schools that -this fund supported with state control should range from primary to university, both included. Thus they made the system, inclusive, wise and sound. This was the pattern. But it was much like the tailor's pattern for a suit of clothes, It took a tailor to make the suit according to pattern. For at least a quarter of a century after 1816,

IN WASHINGTON . . . 8 UN Is Still Playirig

WASHINGTON, May 15.—The suspicion will not down that the session of the United Nations assembly called to consider the problem of Palestine .is merely another delaying move in the chess game of power politics. Thus far there is little indication of any desire to break through the pattern of calculated frustration and defeat. The longer we accept that pattern, the more calloused we become to the spectacle of the displaced persons, (What a polite, official term to cloak infinite misery, Jonging, despair.) The more blunted does our conscierice become.

Process Time Consuming THIS 18 perhaps the most terrible reality in the whole tragic, wretched business. It becomes a matter of ritualistic phrases, of diplomatic thrust and coun-ter-thrust. The human beings who have struggled so long in the quagmire of indifference are lost

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The process of a United Nations inquiry is timeconsuming. But if we were sure that a settlement would be made on the basis of an impartial inquiry, then perhaps we could afford to wait. Intimations have come, however, from British sources that a United Nations report might be ignored as readily as was the report of ‘the Anglo-American commission which spent so much time and effort on a set of recommendations. As Americans, we can hardly be proud of. the attitude taken by the American delegation at Lake Success. It is an attitude of watchful waiting; on the whole, a negative attitude. So much seems to be left unsaid. The United Nations, it will be argued, is not equipped to accept a mandate over such a troubled area as Palestine. This argument has a superficial validity. Organization of the kind of force that would make the authority of the United Nations effective has been painfully slow. The commission to create an international police force has engaged in an interminable wrangle.

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NEW YORK, May 15.—~I imagine Garbo didn't have as much when she rolled in from Sweden, and we made a cult of her for nearly 20 years. This is a curious sort of story, but I'd like to try if. It is, you might say, a preview of success—a look at some foreign raw material, imported on the long chance that another Swedish girl may Yevelop into an international byword. The odds must ‘be heavily againa it, and yet Marta Toren has more than. Garbo possessed when she stepped off the ship. Marta Toren has been in this country about a week. She was a stenggrapher in Stockholm during the war. S8he has never acted professionally. Her English is not yet fluent. She walks pigeon-toed, a little, and.she looks like a nice kid you would see coming home on the subway from a Wall Street office. She doesn’t know anything yet about American dress. :

Press Agents Will Go to Work BUT SHE has bones in her face that will show up right under makeup. She has long, narrow Mongol eyes of a startling lightness. Evidently she can act, for the Royal Dramatic Theater schoo] in Stockholm shakes out the hams. Mortality in Marta’'s class was 104 flunks out of 112 pupils.

Our newest Swede has left for Hollywood. I suppose they will glamor her all up. They will throw her into the hands of voice coaches and English coaches, and steal her low shoes and make her quit wearing her tam. They will do things with her hair, and then the press agents will start inventing glamor for her past and prominent boy friends for her present,

Out of this will come that strange monster, the

foreign Hollywood actress, a creature compounded of

press agerited moonbeams, fan magazine gossamer and gossip column speculation.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON, May 15.—Another sizable dollar loan to Britain will become imperative next winter to tide her over for two or three years, despite official disclaimers. This writer is informed that Britain is now plagued by three things, a bad distribution of labor, a coal shortage and a dearth of dollars.

Time Heals Some" Things TIME, IT 18 SAID, should remedy the first fairly soon. Lack of jobs in one area and the offer of work in another — plus an amelioration of the housing shortage—will cause -the population to shift to the right places. The: coal situation also can be progressively

‘remedied by improvements of ‘machinery and other

recourses. There is nothing either mysterious or insurmountable about this particular problem. But the dollar problem is something else. The whole business of balance of payments is geared up

with all sorts of intricate, international machinery

and can't be solved readily by one country alone, however hard it tries. To meet her balance of payments, Britain will have to sell abroad approximately 175 per cent of her prewar exports. That presupposes a somewhat better-than-normal world—a world in which people are working at good pay and buying the things which Britain has to offer. No such world immediately is in sight, due to the failure of the great powers to make peace. It was this state of affairs which led Secretary of State George C. Marshall to

say that the patient de Sibking while the doctors

deliberate. a : ~The London “Economist” asks on the, front page of a recent edition: “Is Britain finished?” In. a

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teachers in the public schools were Ei Jot, of necessity, schools were small in a population thinly ‘spread over a wide stretch of territory. Churches generally opposed non-sectarian schools. ! Their members, and others who could afford it, sent their children to private schools, seminaries, and colleges.

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at a low ebb. The three R's—‘readin’, tin’, and 'rithmetic” were the goal. Further education to these people was highfalutin. Nearly a hundred years planned but scantily supported system of publig | schools in Indiana was formed, the state has a modern” school setup. It has a school fund that keeps education in the state in step with modern times. The drive to this goal got under way around 1847, with Caleb Mills of Wabash college spearheading thy drive. In this Mills was joined by inffuential public-spir-ited men in the state. Calvin Fletcher, Jeremiah Sullivan, Richard W. Thompson, the Rev. EB. R. Solomon Merideth, random.

Factor in State Progress DOWN THE YEARS these men were joined, in

official capacity or public spirit, by David Starr Jor. |

dan, James W. Smart, Willlam A. Bell, Joseph Swain, William Lowe Bryan, and many of their ability and public spirit. The net result of all this is that the state school fund of Indiana has come to be one of the sively powerful factors in the substantial and general standing of the state in the nation. Thas deeply touches every man, woman and ehild im Indiana,

Marquis Childs Power Politics

Supposing the United Nations were to take over the Palestine mandate, Supposing the United Nations were to carry out a recommendation to admit 100,000 homeless Jews. Surely it should be possible to do this in an orderly way with the backing of the major powers in the United Nations. We have, of course, a more immediate responsibility. displaced persons who want to come to this country, William G. Stratton, Republicap congressman-at-

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As tragic as the Palestinian problem I in all its : phases, there is an even larger consideration before

the delegates at Lake Success. If this is to be merely a puppet show, with the strings carefully manipulated from behind the scenes to bring the result desired by those with special interests, then the United Neations itself will be endangered. .

Nations Troubled, Uneasy ALREADY THE cloud of doubt is heavy. The nations outside the prize-ring in which the big powers maneuver are troubled and uneasy. The Canadian department of external affairs has prepared an ex-

cellent report _on the United Nations session of last

winter. It contains this significant statement: “The people of Canada looked upon the United Nations not as a temporary expedient, but as a permanent partnership—a partnership among the peoples of the world for their common peace and com~ mon well-being.” The league of nations was a temporary expedient, Jt was reduced to impotence and finally destroyed the expediency of the powers that used it to their own ends. In the Palestine issue, the Nations has a chance to show that # is not

temporary expedient,

At the moment, her nalvite “is wonderful to behold,

She has not yet learned that it is bad business for

a young actress to admit that she is in love with a young fellow in Stockholm named Beugh Lindwall She has been on a banana split spree; her handlers will soon convince her that the camera thickens the figure and banana splits are bad for the complexion. They will tell her that actresses do not drink port

wine before lunch. The only reason she drinks ity

now is because it's sweet. She was eating at one of the: tonler Jools the other day. - And when the meal was finished, the waiter murmured that there would be no check. “Why?” she asked in an astonished voice. “Why is everyone so nice to me?” It will not be too long before she will know the answer. It may upset her when she learns that prestige in the celebrity trape has nothing to do with the sweetness or nobility of the character.

How About Boy Back Home? THE WAY she came here was simple. A writer for RKO was in Sweden getting some dope on story, and culling the dramatic school for a possible discovery. He made a test with Marta, .and was enthusiastic. His own people didn't like the test, so he showed it to somebody‘ in Universal-Interna-tional. They like her, and sent for her. Simple as that. But if she’s good and if she clicks those facts will get lost and this long-legged kid will soon be obscured by ersatz legend and it will develop that she was a prince's sweetheart, chief lady spy for a government in exile, and that she came to America in & submarine. She is crazy for success, I guess, and will probably achieve it. But I am wondering how young Lindwally back in Stockholm will fit into the a year from now, when Marta goes home for in her first mink coat.

was decisive. It was decisive because # decided nothing. Henceforward the two groups more and more will go their respective ways “willy-nilly . . . toward a balance of power.” Much depends upon the strength of the component parts of this precarious balance, the British weekly suggests. Whether or not Britain is finished, there-~ fore, or can expect to remain a great power, is most important. Britain answers her own question with & no, she is not finished, and can remain a great power. However, she attaches a number of “ifs” and “buts.” ” Compared with all her other problems, difficult though they may be, the “Economist” observes, that of her international balance of yments is far more complex, far more intractable and possibly still more catastrophic in its effects. “Indeed, over the period of the next-year or two it 1s very difficult to see And, it adds, “The chief reason for believing (it), will be solved . . . is that.it must be. It is not the sort of problem that can drag on from year to year. No country can live on credit indefinitely, or even, in Spylteiny position, for very

long.”

Peaceful World Needed : NATIONAL STRENGTH in the modern age depends on productivity, on keeping the wheels turning; on plenty of jobs, high standards of living; the exchange of goods across oceans and frontiers. That depends on a world at peace, not a world parniyae. by and uncertainty as at present.

from being “finished.” One is another loan to tide her over the next critical period, and the second is world peace to give her a chance at the vastly better

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